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With strong insight into the characters of Ernest Bevin, General Clay, Dean Acheson, and Robert Schumann, and now with a foreword by former British minister to Berlin Sir Michael Burton, this a story of individual heroism and high brinkmanship politics, of daily life under appalling circumstances, and great achievements against all odds.

As a couple who have just moved in together, the question 'what was your peak and pit?' is one that we always finish the day with. The question always stirs up conversation from about anything from our moods and daily struggles, to the funny thing we saw on the tube, and life's bigger questions. Having had our individual struggles with mental and physical health, we realised that talking about our peaks and pits always opened up a conversation we weren't expecting. We discuss everything from fitness to relationships and basically anything else we can fill the time with.

Are you a fan of Wordle? Have you never played but want to learn more? This book is for everyone! Take a fun and refreshing trip inside a game sweeping the world. We look at everything from how to play, the history of word games, and how the brain reacts to how Wordle grew to become so popular and what the next big thing might be.

Miles Norris, a retired computer salesman, has lost the will to live. Approaching 80 years of age, his wife taken by cancer, he has been banished from an assisted living center in Florida because of violent behavior. Now his only son, Scott, is moving him against his will to the Better Life Spa, an expensive, state-of-the-art Alzheimer’s center outside Washington, DC, that claims to be able to provide all the care the old man could ever need - or so they think. Scott is unaware that the Better Life also operates a parallel business, a secret one, unrelated to healthcare.

In the modern world, the topic of religion has become something of a heated subject. The divide between the religious and secular worldviews has grown into a chasm, and having conversations on the topic has become practically taboo in many places. But does it have to be that way? Enter your hosts, the lifelong friends Bailey, David, and Michael - a Christian, Atheist, and Agnostic Theist respectively. In this podcast, we compare and contrast the plausibility of the religious and secular worldviews…without the unnecessary harshness that is usually part of the deal with this subject. Does it ...